Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1875, Page 1

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ABEL, Ypoono BOTEL. tealng of thie Astor IHouse, New Yark City, by Allen & Dam, “‘_:‘f;!!w.-, laving been entirely renorated b, 4 kaprovercute and nowly furnished, will "‘“"M.":‘ firatclus holel, 0n (he European plan, Ayl L1675, The busiuess publio will ond & Pt cowlortable sud couvenient fu the city, 0% oo f unusually large, Light, aud alry, One gy h‘ltnlwnqu ‘elovators will Tun all £t e i Fbaceiiy. pared for the comfact of il sutradce on Vesey-st, Hooms 8110 §i s bhas beenele anlly fited ass “l:‘.‘('\,"!lflmhh Pl s e e e e2u (s this countzy » speciadty, The bar il the chulcesla wines, Huors. Ales, X L ALLEN & DAN, Yropristors, Uiy g Dam il cosiiaus o X Vropristorship of D o mmfi“:&'&;& Now Yorkeono of the beste e moda- THE ATLANTIO FOR DECEMBER PRESENTS MANY ATTRACTIVE PAPERS! HENRY JAMES, JR,, brings uis canital story of * Roderick Hudaon, toa close, and W, Dy HOWELLS gires twomoro chapters of his now ¥ Privato ‘Thoatricals,” O LES IS , J R., contribules s second chapter on * aflrond Accidents,” and MES. FRANCES ANNE KEEMBLE contiones ler entertalning # Old Woman's Gossip.” H. H. dencribes Colorado scenury under tho titl of * A Bymphony in Yollow and Rod " I, BORY narrates the clotiag aconos 3t i n *Tho Virginia Campaign of John Brown i H, H. BOYESEN writes of Tho Romantlo Solool of Literature in Germany;” aud LOUISE BTOOKRTON -contributes an ezcellent #hort story, entitled Xirby’s Ooals of Fire." Tha Poatry of the number in hy 0. P, ORANCEH, JOHW BleIaE O'RBEILLY, EDGABFAW. OBETT, aod others, The departient of Recont Litoraturo cont: roviews of Whittier's !* Aabel Martin,” Russells ** Livtary Notes," Mark Twaln's i Bietches,"and other racent books; and thoss of Azt #nd Music sre weil flled, the latter Leing dovolod ta fore Hsivon Bulow's first concert in the Uuited res. novel, E. Jiarper's Ferry FOR BALE DVERY WHERE. THE PROGRAMME OF THE ATLANTIO FOR 1876 Jacludes contribntions from the sblost anil beat writers in the country. LONGFELLOW, LOWELL, S, ani WHITTLHR will furnish, 23 Ritherto, thelr Istest and best_productions to the Iic through the ATLANTIC, WARNEI and OH wiil writo of Easiern and Continental Tra WARD A imitabis papers, HOW! story, Pri- PHantrioals MNS. REMBLES * 014 ‘Woman's Qam%. and MR, ADAMB® papers on Ratlroads will bo smong tho special features of the year, and now attractions will ba constantly added, '8 ; Single or specimen numbors, 35 conta. Yearly aulacription, s‘.&, postage {roe. 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Of tho other contributors, perliaps the most notlce- able are 11, IL,'s poom of “THE LEGEND OF 8T, NICHOLAS," With fts exquisite {llustration; “BOMETHING ABOUT RAILROADS,” Qiving details of the history, cofstruction, and msn~ agement of the railway; sod “One Hundred Christmas Presents, and How to Male Them.” A guids to the construction of those {nnumerabls adornments that can bo #0 easily made~when ono onve knows how—out of mers household seraps, As for other attractions, * Bandy, the Hunchback,” gives us a pathstio picturo of & poor msimed boy's ita among the braes of Beolland; and we have tho nter- csting and peculisr observancae of #BT., NIOHOLAS® DAY IN GERMANY.” We mect Mr. Trowbridge's sporting characters, ¢ Joa" and Donwig,” and experfenco the delight of hunting ducks with them upon s littlo {sland, *Frank and the Toad,” & novel mock-trial, sud tho poem of & #Dead Doll,” aro sure to bring alaugh; and Ars, Dodgo givea ona of her charming rhymes, with & mar- velously bea ntiful {llustration by Mies Hallock, Hut what keen excilement and fuspirstion aro to be galnod from Jack-jn-the-Pulpit, or the Riddlo-Dox, ‘which this month offers as & prizo A Beautiful Miniature S8choonor-Yacht! 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Ferkin's Anthom Book, $1.50, Raay Anthems, Appendix to Bloore’ Enoyolopedia of Muslo. The larger work [£6) publiakied n 1634 contatos sk most averything Lhst was knows about mulo previous u‘:‘lz‘t ‘hm Th;h:mnt;h(w;:ul.:flnm? Mullt‘:‘l e oy Safar dad tatereating, © press! OLIVER DITSON & C0, UHAB. H. DITSON & 00, Boaton, Ti1 Broadway, New York, LYON & HEALY, Chicago. FINANOIAL. Money to Loan O real eatate in Chicega sud vicwity, lmproved pre- forred, Fuuds {u baud, MEA % D & COE. 183 Jagalle-at CHICAGO, SBATURD OVEMBER 20, 187 —TWELYV! PAGES. LITERATURE. and Nis Native Princes. A Frenchman’s Narrative of a 8ix Years' Sojourn in Hindostan. The Court of the Guicowar of Bar- oda-—A Whimsical Despote- Fight with Claws, The City of tho Rising Sun, the Pal. aces of Jugnavis and Jug- munder, and the Taj of Agra. Books for the Javeniles-~Spanish Portrait- ures by Bore—Ancient Per- sian History. An Halian Poem on Washington.--A Work Written Five Hundred Years Before Christ. The Elephant in Central India-.-Ilow a Sagaclous Animal Escaped from & Dangerous Positlon, Forest-Trees of India: The Mahweh, 8al, Nim, Simoul, Banyon, Ete,, Ele. LITERATURE, NATIVE INDIA, INDIA AND I3 NATIVE PrINcrs: TRaveia 1§ Cry- THAL INDIA AXD IN TR PREAIDENCIES OF BOMEAY AND BeNaat, By louis Rousszier, Oarefully lo- vised and Edited’ by Liout.-Col. Bucxey, Conl ing 917 Tlustrations wnd 6 Marn. Follo, usli i, Pp, 579, Now York: seribner, Armstrong & Ca,” Vrice, §2 ¥ Although England has for noarly threo centu- rlea boen closely connectod with Hindostan, and, gradually gainlog control over its torritory, haa now for Bomo yonrs ruled almost ity entiro ares, it g been left for a Frenchman toreveal to the groat body of thie English, oveu of those who have visited and dwelt in the provinco, tho modes of life and the condition of civihzation provailing in extensive and populous portions of the Poninsula. The cold and formal race who bave subjugated the land have mostiy hold them- solves soclally sloof from iy inbabitants, aud honco it has happencd that a geuial and skillfal citizen of France hns pased through doora closed to the Englirhman, and roturved bringing valu- ab'o information hitherto inaccossiblo. M. Roueselot landed in Bowmbay iu July, 1863, with a viow of studying the architectaral mouu- mente, the religious beliefs, tho art-works, and tho socinl systems of tho patives of Judia, Ifo waa doterminod not only to exploro the country, and examine tho Acener and objoota opsn to tho inapection of ovory travoler, but, if poesible, to observa tho privato life of tho peoplo, to estab- lish amicable and famliliar rolations with them, to socuro an admission into their homes, and an opportunity of witnossing their family cnstoms, ns woll as thoir roligious and civil ceremonios, Io short, ho waa recolved to mako Limeelf ac- quajnted with the gomus of tho Iudian races, that ho might gain = deeper ineight into tholr past history and the promise of tbeir fulure. 1 am not ono of those travelors,” ho ¥ays, In tho begluning of his book, * who gallop throagh a couutry sa though urged onwards by gome myalorious spur ; who, always hurried, sso noth- ing ; and who, whon acrived ot their journoy's ond, themselyes wondor whal coula lisve heen thio canso of thoir hinste. I three years are not sufilciont to viut Indls, I will dovoto four or oven fivo yoors toit; but atleast Ishall nave seon something.” Hodid, in fact, spend six yours in the labor of exploration ; and, among the eplen- did rosults of this prolongoed period of sltornato wofourn and travel in ona of tho oldost and most Lighly cultivated, yet strangely unfamiliar, re- glons of the carth, s the prosont animsted and authevtio bistory, Its superiority, in polut of brilliant description and elegaut illustration, overavery othor narmative of travel in Ceuntral Indis, bas been frooly acknawledgod by the Ea- gliah preas. Its merits have, moreover, obtajned the recognition of the Engliel Uovernmeut, and filty covios of tho work were taken out by tho Trinco of Walos to be distributed, among other gifts, to tho Rtajabs of India. On his first arrival in Bombay, M. Ronssclot addrossed bimselt to the task of acquiring the Isngunges of Hindostan, that he might havo the means of oasy communication with tho pooplea whom ho shontd visit, Hoveral months were thus occupied in proliminary preparations before au .advance futo the imtorior was attompted. While in Bombay, every availablo opportunity was ymproved for intercourso with the jnhab- {tants, and for an examination of the anciont and modern edificos in tho city aud ita vicinity. Lo famous rock-tomples and monagtories in Elo- phanti and Kenharl wero visicod ; the lslands of Bombsy and Balesctie wors thoroughly cxplored ; tho ruins of Callian and tho caves of Karll wero scrutinized ; and the nborigines of tho Westorn Uhauta studiously notod, By the time this fotroductory work had been secomplished, I, Rousselot mado many warm friends ‘wmoug tho rich sud jutluontial Hindoos of Bowmbay, and Lsd beon, on various foative occasions, welcomod 10 tholr houses, as aluo {o thowo of the Parsoes,—av active and in- tereating ruce, who bold an iuportaut posttion in the commerce of the city. Wuen at last, ar- ter a tour through Western Docesn go the cittos ot Pooush, Golcond d Hyderabad, and (o tho caves of Ellora and Ajuntia, ho was ready Lo leavo Bombay finally for Central Indis, ho bad well learued tho art of sdapting bimsalf 10 the customs of tho natives, of respecting their focl- ings aud prejudices, of weaciog thair costume wheu ueed ‘be, and, iudoed, 88 far as served a sagacious travoler’s purposes, had become o Hindoo among tbe Hindoos. Thenceforth Lis journoy from Court to Court of the Indian sovercigna was like tho progress of » scion or represeutative of voyalty. ile way, over tho major part of his rouie, borns uron camels or elephauts, oriu carriagos; was at. tendsd by guides and secvants, aud accomusuied by » military escort, furnished st the expeuss of the Princes who had been flatiered and delightod to entertalo the amiable sud accomplished stranger. While 8 resident at their rospective capitals, he waa houored s their persoual guost ; » sumptuous abodv was furnished him; evory facility for prosccuting his rosenrchos Was af forded ; sud the rusaurces of tha Court we taxed for hia ai Royal buuts wore in- tuted ; tho gamoyn wero oxlibited ; statoly and frieudly interviows woro granved and Kinge, oficials, “pricsts, daucors, sud rju;,u glers united to pn{ ‘bun regpect aud minfster to his plessure. Priviloges were grauted him which bad uover boen olguud su Loglishman, for the reason that ho mot all clauges 1o & wplrit of gentlo and conctliating courtesv, sud, spens- iog thelr own tongue -n3 vonversaut with their charactor, ho was able to divarm them of jeal- ousy and suspicion, apd to gratify them with s woval, friendly, sud intructive assoclation. At Baroda. the Capital of tho Laughiy libun- derag uicowar, A, Rousseled waa pleasantly do- ! kind, tnelc'that T refiked 1 ga agatn, tafned for six months. Ho wan established in an elegant mnmmar-palaca at a little distauco from the mubutbs, in o garden plantod with fruit-trsen and abrubberica, and Alled with atstues, fountalom, aud kiosks. ilis residenca wan embelliskod with averything that coutd add n chorm ora comfort (0 hifn: a large staff of sarvants wan piaced at his disporal ; snd e table waa supplied with the choicrst viands and the best winen of Earops,—all at the cost of the Tnjah, Ho wan a duly wsitor si the roys! painze, whoro hiv soat waa at tho right baod of s Bo¥eTeIRN, WO RAYS Mim rvary proof of diss tinguished favor. A ronnd of princelr fastivals o pageants filled up the moamure of thelrtimo. untimgn, combaty betwoen wild beaste snd nthlcter, featn of acrobsts snd nocromancers, processions, and bauquots, snccoeded each otlior in endless vanioly, It wan with difiienity that tha traveler at Jast Lroke away from tho allures monts with which the Kiog would have prolonged hiy stay mdciiuitoly, ‘Tho Guicowar was ono of tha mont pownrful of tho Mahretia Lrincew, and, liko a true despot, silowed lumsell every liconnn. 1o was » ton- arch of many eanricon, nnd each new whim wad abumdantly gratitied, Now his mania was for amonds, nud evers faro hlots was sought ia g doainiont ; now 1t was for pigeuus, ond 60,0-0 birds, of various breeds, gwarmed in his palaca and amwsed Lim by their matutinal Lte, Again Lo had o faucy for bpibule, sud huodreds of the beantiful birda werp bLrought, and for amonth occupied lum with their caso and cducation, In tho ond, a pitchof battlo was provoked among tho inuocent but @uguacious Jittlo oreaturcs, in_which great nufbars wore Kolled ontright ; and so this faney wagooncluded. At ono time, the Kiug choss to celebrata o moek marriago butween & pmr of Lis pigeons, and B Rousseiet witneesod the farcical corcmony, Tha palace was wumptbously decorated ; sho Ring and conrtiers were arcayod in thoir gala-robes ; a warriage-portion was settled on tho bride ; tne prieats chanted tho wuptal bymoa; aad tho wholo pagoant finished with » dance, bauquet, aud graud tHumination. ‘T'ha Guicowar's tastes inclined him to brotal #porty, in which the eight of bloodshed inflcmed his passious to the pitch of madpess. Amon tho #pectactes cantrived for the amuscment of M. Poussolot wera contests batwezu wrentlers, in which the conbat wos often carrisd to a fa- fai issue, Ono of the nost terrible of theso ox- Libitions, called the ancki-Fakonati, or ** fight with claws," was thus conducted ¢ - Herathe combutants, almost naked, but adorned witls ctowns aud gariaide, teat oxch other with clava of hurp, Theae claws weta formerly of ateed, cansed certain death o ons or other of {lio combat- snts ; but they hate beay ahollshed, o t00 barharoin for wodert (fes, Tuo.o LOW in uss 8%, 38 1have #atd, of horn, utlars fized on tno closed mat withy Tiosis, 1 wwen ouly onco present st a combat af tui nd, for sy hoart was so moved by the Lorriblo pe - Tho wreatlora, intot feated with b1, —liqnid optum mixed with an infu #1on of hemp,~sinjg ws they rush upon one another ; thefr faces und bieads arn soun cavesed wvith biood, and their frenzy knows no bounds, Tho King, with 'wild eyes and (o velny of Lix neck awalleu, vurveya the Acene with such passionate excltemens that ke cannot sematn quiot, but fmiiatea by gesturas tho movements tho’ wrestlers, The trens ds coversd with blood ; tho defeated combatent fp carried off, sometioes In & dying condition: and the cont wuiorar, the wiin of i forchesd hanming dovn strips, prostrates himeelf Lefore the King, whio placca sottad Lis siock 3 novklaco of o pearlty and covers Bl with garments of great valie, Ouo episodey moreover, diegusted me to #uch a degrea that, without suy heed ‘of 10 ofect 1wy audden depnrinre might nave upan the Ouicowar, L at ouce witlidrew, One of ths wrestlers, whotn {un bans had oaly haif-iutoxl- catod, atier reeelsing th S7al fow Wows, made a enoey of wisling 1o ercajo; lis wutagonist threw him, and they rolled together on (he ground beforous, The victor, secing tho unlaphy wretch demand quarter, surned to tue King to know whettier he »hould let the otlier_rise: but, Inflamod with the pectace, the monarch criad oty Mara! maro: Btrika 1 atrixe (" and tuo scalp of the unfortunate fellow was tori witlis out mercy, When he wis taken away Lie Liad lost all connclousness, That same duy the King dielributed amongat the victorioos wreatlera neckluces aad money to the amount of 1nore than £4,0im), At Oudeypoor, Gwalier, Bhopal, and other geats of tho Muliratta and Mohammodan sover- eigny, tho orienta! luxury and eplondor of tha ucenes prosented at tho Court of Bsrods wero repeasod with minor changes. On coming inlo viow of Oudegpoor, the Cavital of Moywar, M. Tousselot 8aye : **1 stood i ceslasy gazng on the sublime panorama spread out at my feot. Never had © oven hoped to rop mytiing 85 beautiful ; it resemblod one of the fairy cities in “The Arabian Nights,' Iu the foregronud, a long lino of forts, pagodns, aud palaces, stood out from a backgronnl of gardens, abave which apposred 4o Lown,—a fantastio awsemblage of bell-turrote, towere, and Iioaks, built up tho fa« cliuo of & pyramidical hill; on the summit of which was an immense palaco of whito marble, which contranted tinelv with the dark bine of the muuntains bebind it, This palace, wirli jts nplendid proportions, appearod to soar liko the Now Jorusalem abovo n terrostrinl city, Noither Jon wor pencil could givo the marvelotis offect of that town, which is well named Uudeypoor, *the Cityof the Risiog Sun.' " Intho contra of Luke Leshola—n beautital aheat of wator on_tho confiues of Oudorpoor— aro tyo fnlands : Jugnavis and Jugmunder, the formor of which, omb:acing 16 acres, is liter~ ally coverod with royal residencos, **'Yhoso paiaces contain recaption-hails and apartmionts, and bathy sod kiosks, of the most beautiful architocuuro, ornamentod with o richuoss quita fabulous, Marble 1 the only stone emplayad in iheir construction: pilfars, vaulld, reservolrs, gardon-walls, all are of wmarble, ewther white or black: the wolls are ornamented with glittering monaics, and the principal chambers sro deco- rated with bistorical [frescous, Jiach masa of buildlugs bas a garden attached o 1, eurs rounded by gallerios, whera flowote and orango and lomon treca grow near s stream, tho differ- ont channela of which form a different pattern. Tmmenso mango troes and tawsrinds shnde theso beantiful palacen, winla tho cocos-nut snd thio dato-paln raisn, above the very domes, thoir feathery heads, which aregeoot|vswayod toand fro Ly tho breoze from tha Inko. Thasmallest detaila linrmonize with tho hoauty of tho wholo ecene. ‘Thato is nothing grand,—~nothing which mspires the mind with nwo, The palsces nro emall, elo- geant, aud comfortable; thoy aro the abodos of Pleasure, whore tho Rana can divest bimeelf of sotami pomp, of which there is alwazs ko much at tho Court of tho Suu of the lindoos,” At tho island of Jugmunder, continues . Roussolot, **Wo landed at a flight of marhle Wteps, at_tho wide of which a raw of elophiauts witls uplitted trauks appeated ta Auprart the quay, A gigantls mango treo nearly filed tho 1lrst court, which is surrounded by tne buldings of the palace. On tho other sido Is & garden, occupying that entiro end of the island, which in overloalied by a large butlding, surmountod by & Mogul dome, called by my guido tho I'alaco of £hal Jehnn « + 'thointerior was decorated with mognics it jaspor, agate, aud onyx. and hig with pich drarerios; and fuone of tho hiatlsa thrano wae placed, cut oat of s solld block of greenish Eorpentine, supported by four femalo caryntides; nnd in the court, a chapel, alwo of sorpentino, wes cousecrated to tho Mussulan saint, Modar. . . . Attheend of tho garden #tands a pavilion, 20 fost loog and 12 foet wide, calfod tho * Chamber of tho Twelye Stones,’ bes cuune it I built of twelve blocks of whito mar- Bo. On the westeru sids of tho lalaud 1w & yalnce, roofod with four domes of the shapo of & tortoine’s back, and containing maguiticent gar- dens; whilo, ot intorvals, kiasks, supported by Pumerous pillars, riso out of tho Jake itacli, which causes them to bo deliciously frosh snd cool" Buch were the visions of paradizaleal beauty that wet tho traveler on overy sido iu thiy mar- voious {spd. 'Tho sober description of tho sctual wouders gvarywhore proseuting thetnseives ox- ceods iu romauce and fascination tho ouchaotipg tsles of tho Thousand-aud-One Nights. Langnuge is verlly powerless to por- tray them, and recouree must ba had tothe more graphio art of the 1[mnclL Wa have noglectad to 84y, catlicr, (hat M. Ronrsolot comwletod bl equipwent 8¢ u eciontifo travoler by & practical kuowledge of phutography, and, carrylug instiu- monts and matenals with Bim, did vot noglect to take sun-pictures of i} striking objocts. Ue was also accompaniod, during the greater part of 18 Jouruey, by o Flomish painter, wbio sketohed in water-c)lora whatevor Was most pistures jue, It iy by aeans of thodo prodigsl and accurato trauseripty of temples, wosyuos, and palaces, of tropical sconery,snd of groupd and umfilla Dgures, thatwe sre ablo toreahzotho truth of M, Houssa- fut'd patonmisbivg rerorta. With the bolp of words alone, the imazioation would never conceive tho full lovoliness aud magwificenco of the subjocts cuteniog Iuto his stury, The dulweatiow wl tho architectmat wmonuments of 1ndis fill one with amszement, We aro accustomed to think of the Alhawbra of (ranads aa tho wost perfect jowel ovor fas- ioned by tha bufider; but, over and over sgsiv, we fiud its loveliest festures surpsssed in the structures of tho Hindoo sud Indu-Mussulmau. In purity of outline, grandour of propostions, varietv of rtyle, aud richnuoss of ornamoniation, no edifices con oqual toso which smbellish Hin- dosian. Thoy ravgo in sge wnd order of archi- tocture from the lope agd the chaitya. daiing many husdreds of years back of the Christisa NUMBER 87, o the moaque and palaca of the eightoenth century. ‘Thn effort woall ba useless to convey hore an fdea of thoir baauty and splendor ; but & hiot may ba given in a briof aketel of the '*Marvel of Iudis,” the Taf of Agra. This wonderful conglruction is moro gonerslly famillar than sny othor in Ilindostan, yct becauss, by its ro- cent date, tho dctails of ita oraction Aro known, wo choosa to repeat its hiatary. Tt ‘Taf {4 n mausoloum built by tho Eunpsror Shah Joban tn commemorats tho virtues and talents of his bosuutul wifs, the Empraen Mumtagi Malal or Taj-libl, who died in giving birth to the Princess Jobanara, Thn building wan came manced in 1630 and finished in 1647, aod, dunng thioso noventoen years, 20,009 workmon wers em- ploved. In itscountruicsion, 140,000 cart-Jonds nf pink randatono and whita marblo woro used : anil precious stonas for its adornment were contrit~ utod by esch province of tho Empire. Jasuer, corueliany, turquoises, nga‘os, lapis-lazuli, coral, rockecreatal, coyx, chatcedonies, kapphires, and congloimeratos were thng dounted, and the Isbor of the workmoan was forced ; yut still tho structura cost about two mitlivus. The Ta) 18 rituatad on tho hankn of the Jumna [re. Iatea M. Ronrasiet], ith guiden ereiccut pialug 200 fant atiovs i level of tha river, The gardon u frout of 1t in murrounded by bigh, embsttied. walls, witl & pavii- jun at each corner, Ths principal eatrance is A wmonumental srch, contaluing several cpartments, anid crowued with a row of kiosks ; the asterior Ix of red sanidatone, relieved with bands of wbite marbin; snd the tympanunal of tha centeal arch ars ortamented Wikl pioszica of agats and ouyz. On entering this o, W riddenly found ourecives dn fro tha Fa), whileh apeared whitennen, 8t £he end of o widw, 1vtal avenue, botdered on eatly wids with tall cypfeas treor, The eat viow of the Ta) i1 noat Atriking. Lke s mountsln of anite warale, it rinss snyatertounly sbive the pamabre aud Juzurisut vegetation of tho garden, Thie terrace of pink sandstone on which the Taf ataidn in 930 foct fu fenzth and 839 in widili, and ota end of Jt'Is athid 1n the Jumna, whila th'otber | auiy 8 (c fort above the Lavel of the garden, A o nif ot [1atform of while inarkila e oro-ted (ntha tre of this terrace, meastiriug 15 fest o height pud 3-8 feet ou avery lds, which forins n peiestal for tho mausoleiinyt sud bt each coreraf (e piwsorm it 8 marbie minaret, upon which resta o light cupola, abeut 130 fext trom the ground, The mazaieumh itacif 18 constructed like an frregalar octagnn, the longes: sliey of which measare 120 fert s and it e & torraced roof, with four pavtifons ylased at the cor- ners, aud & magnificent doma i tie gentre. Each Tacade §8 plerced with: & high, Karacenio gate, danknd o eltheT side Ly two rows of niches. Hoch' ore the proportions and tho plaa of thy T1f, s they may be enuzlly appiled, though on a srualler eotle, 10 olber [a- dim roDuments; but every Line Las brou calowlatsd wmste ard thst Dot s singie fault can o detestod, The ntire edifice, £ram tha bas to the summit, fn bullt of white marble, faleid with mosaics, forming inacriptlons, arabesques, and other de {liexo ace arranged with 50 muicl taske that, In epitn of tlelr great nuinber, they ornamnent thin ‘monim-nt witholit sppearing 1o Licavy, Exery part of the extr with tho s le oxception of Lo dome fiself, f« cover. witls these marvelony mosaic, _1ore again’ Ueber ‘marked with truth that % Tho Taj wae bullt by Tita: and finished by goldamithss " and never win cu: noms fipely earved by the patient band of Chiness artlal, Tt s imposrible Dot to b Atruck with the Arst view of tlo Taf, and bero tho traveler catiuot, 89 in often the caxe, Ly deceived and disapvointed by an ex- aggerated deacription, Hepoated vistin ouly serve to bring aome new beauty to Habts aud. s i £Gunt, yon ean livo thers a week without it,—aily darovering new polnts of intereet. "The tnterior even aurpassen the exterlor {n magoifi- cence; tho cuiling, walls, aod tomtntones cro ouw: mass ‘of_moralca, represontiug fowers, feait, and birds, Tho tomba of the Eimpreesand 'Bheh Jel.u are fa the centre of tho lall, closed by o mari.e scrosn, A sulcued light pancirates theomgh e rese. work of the windoans and the imoresaiva sileure nt the place is enhapced by a peeubiarly mnsical esho, which ean ouly bo compared tn that of the aptistry at Vina, whicls I8 th finest in Earope. Thie echo in cauced’ by tho domme, which, betnie completely cloned by the celling of 1be Bal, forms a Rigantic whisperiog gallery. Conld tho reader viow tho oxquisite ensravings wluch accompany this word-picture of the Tuf, ho would undoubtedly catch tne contagion of M. Roue-cloi's cuthusinsm for tho wonderful art of oative Judia, JUVENILES, Tur CATsRILY Fammiss. Dy Vinarva W, Author of % Josph thy Jew,” sic., of Dy ALrnab Prropsions, §mo,, pp, 183, New York ¢ 3arper & Drothers; Chirago: Junsen, McClurg & Co. Price, g3 Micp AT PLaT, WILL PLaY. Jouxaox, Tovtratad Wurs TE OAT'S AwaT, Tii% dlice grony ros THE WioLx Fasicy, With Ligteen Iifuairations by 1. Buston: Ttaber . Drice, $1.60, Six 70 MixtErs, ANTONT ron Gimie, Dy JOLIANA Horatia Ewixa, Author of * The Rrowiucs, and Otber Tales, etc, With Ten Iustrations by HiLEN TagesieoN, 16 100, D 203, Doston ; Roberta Drotiss era, Price, $1.50 “#The Catsikill Fairies” ia a sumptuous vol. ume, preparad expressly for holidsy oceasions, In its gay, glittoring droes of scarlet snd gold, with gilt odges, hoavy, glossed paver, plain- faced type, and pretty, plentifal plotures, it is & flt ornament for tho most luxurious library or centro-table, Dut the outer trappings are by no menna the bost part of it. Tha history of tho Catekill fairies, mwado un of s nuwber of scpa- rato ghetches nnd blographies kuit togetherin ove coulivious narrative, ia caleulated to farcie natoall yonng readers, * Mamma! don’t yon wish you conld tea n fajry ?"—the farvent exclama- tion of ono little erftic who had eagerly dovoured tho bouk—teils, without need of furthor com- ment, how powerfully and pleasingly the story impresses tho youtbful imagination. Yes. we sbould all be delighted to veo & fairy ; for thero 18 no moro charmiug coscention put beforo the wiud by cinniug weavers of romanco. Thero is no uso decrying fairy-stories sny more then wngar-candy, Both are harmful in over-osos; but, judiciously indulgod in, sro & comtort and o boneflt to immature humamty, We pity from our soul the boy or girl who 18 boreft of tho oc- caslonal eujoymont of either. ‘A family of Tivo children, bright, restless, vig- orous, frisky, high-spirited, and ingentious, hava been eaptured by Neli Foreat. and introducod bodily into bis sprightly Juvenile. At least thoy rotin thorouuhly efive, and ag full of fun aud frotie as four Lealthy and nctivo childron well conld be, Their aneet, pationt mothor loft them for o fow days in tho care of & carolesa father, that sho might hsve rest in a vhit to distant frionds; and tho mischiovous pranks the hare- brawod youngilers thougltios:ly cut up, whon thero waw Do one to walch them, mako a very “diverting chroniclo. It ia impossitlo to rond tha story without langhion ontiight repeatedly; sna thic is the bapplust effect any rtorv can produco. Thero nre a good mavy comical egccves wo should lilio to transcribo, but mont of thom aro too long for our purpo-e. Wo will make epace, howavar, for a graphie description uf the apora, written by ono of the young rvapogoats to his mother, who promised not 20 mind $he spoll- g " fu the buy's letters : tra Iallips took mio to tho Opra laat night, 1t was yerry quere, A lot of gawks got up and squawtled, Thicro was 4 man_wanied o marry a woman and coolnt, sud_got shul up fn s tower, aud paid on a anjv, aud etiv heard bhn ontade, and showted loud euuf to bo herd ten tniies of, bus’ By didnt here ber, Dbekaua ko ki thero wod & ' Whats the rumpus now sunty.” to Mra Pbiips she Lot like everything, sud tho fat man was g luy’ with the me woman, and wsa aying so in song, A quere sy wasn't §t suams, 1 iion't Lke Opra much, Therv's (0 tuch singiug, e Philipe suis so for. Mre Fhilips mado e lern & lot of wtutf, abaut it Hue nsis the womsen slug supperana, aud the imen lenner, tho fat man that rord 50, was base, and anatlier feller wn barey tone, she mados me learn all the namoy, hut 1 woodnt kiow ono from sgother uest time lme shure, for they kopt clianging thare drvascs ; tiere wera (wa womeu, but I've furiatten what they’ callad tho otlier oub, Da you like the Opry, deer imamma 1 want ta Itk whiat you do, 80 I hope you dunt like tha Upro much, . ‘Good byo deer mimms, Thste 10 rite, but T want 10 3110 1o You, besaure T lonely for yud, don't show iy lettera to auybody. Your lov:g scu, Tox, Tho uostrainod bumor in this composition I a fair sample of the nuality of the entire talo of Lo Mice at Play.” Krom Hix to Bixteen” {8 by an English au- thor, aud givos tho autabiography of s girl born in Iudis, mado an orphau st G, and rearad to ajdenbood smong differont familien of rels- tiven. ‘I'ho change from sceue to sceuo affonis varicty of incidoot, which s, pevortholens, spnetly improved. ‘The story is adapted to girls 10 their osrly tooms, snd is whst wo might call tuoroughly well-bred and moderately outeristu- ivg. SPAIN, Brarx. By the Daroo Cir, Davitnisn, Nlustrated by Guerava Douz, Traushited by J, Tuoxrsos, F. It G.H, Follo, pist?, Now York: Scrivaer, Welford & Avuaizong, Frice, §1%, Entortainuwent for many agredablo hours is to bo found 1n thts volume, which s & repoattory of pictorial aud historioal treasurve. Tho writer,— who had twonty timea beforo traversed tha tor- rltory of Spain, snd was perfoctly familisr with the phases of {ta eceuory, its cities, ite sntiqal. tien, and its inbabltants,—upon tho urgent so- licitation of Doro, joined him i still anotasr extendod Journey over its claesic ground, Tha two fricada rel out from Perpignon, fu the south of Fraoco, and, croseing the Pyreneos by dili- gence, muin Jlarcelona their firat objective point. Iquippad respoctively with pen and pencil, tho chief purpono of the travelors was o fill note- books aud portfolios with the most etriking and picturesquo sketchea afordedt in the land. From Barceloua thev followed tho routn run- ning along through tha fertile valleys bordering the coast,—satoppivg ot a!l tho places Ly Lho way that presented any hopeful inducemants, Va- lencia, Murcis, Granada, Kevills, and Cordova, woro the principal cities visited in tho south of Spain, Then turniog notthward, Madrid, Sego- win, Halamanca, Vailadolid, Burgos, snd Baz goesn, fu turp rewarded the investigations of tha tourists with collectiona of the decpost intercat. A trip down the Ebro, aund across to the Lalearic Inlands, —Major Minorca, and Ivica,—con- cludet a aumemer's {onnt that was rich i chuica returng fur both artisg and nuthor. “Lho fanie of Dore invasta his portion of the work with tho liveliest sitrastion. Upwards of s hundred full-pago illnatrations, and rather TOTE MInNT eurTAVINgs, nttost his diligenco and the opulenco of rabjects furnished hia ta Spain, The most vsluable of his drawings 3ro hoso reproducing tha slorions architectural romatas of the Moor aud the mediaval Bpaniard. They arn oxectod with ereas carn and fildelity, and exhibit the graud proportions and the d:lieate fininb of these marve| truciures with photo- graphic accurars, Th 0304 AT VigoTe oud and lifo-like, au viag “the artist's tendency to esxagicration, aro alwava graphic and interssting. The landeanes aio variablo, Wherever monntainy appear thev ard purely Doreai.—cnlosal, ¢loomy, and frawni Home of the lowlnnd scenca sdliero mainy 1) marred ity 1 the truth, wiule othecra aro 0, Canatug Wi Larts and false drasing. ‘The trees are yolution,' by S everywhere distorted. writhing theic branchoe dcatnin® by U A lizo~ onvcnomed enakes, awd ofteoer bLear. inz up wwals of wonl than crowns of foliage. Dore baano true feehng for verota- tion, and juerely cashes at it; Lo nover tries draw it, His work, as & whole, s wouderfuliy Atromg aug fwposing: but, when tudving 10, tha juatica is realized of Ruskin'a aharp charace serization ud with an asful power.” The Baron Davilher Las, eonveved a larps amount of varied information In bis record of the journey. Much of the past history of tho cuuutry in united with & dascription of it ent customs aud institntions. The archvology of 8pain has beou faithfuliy explored by him g ond, in treating the 8ris, occupations, aud amansewenta of 1ha people, bio has 1ot neglected to mention their aze and orfzin, Tus two trav- elers, joining obsereation o expeiience, ot nnthinig uopaticed that would add to tin come pleteners of their panorama of the land ot tha cantapet and the bolero,” No Famp hovo been gpared by the poblishera to present the volume with bacoming elegance, and amoro fuporb gift for the holidaws will narcely sppesr oa tio shelvesof aur Look- uellers. THE A0SE LIARARY. Lyptem, an Tz Pan Carmurss, i Army Piceiony Cavgivsy Carrive, 3y 2 are 16w, rp, ok & Armstrona. : A §rony ar Nomwaxny, asth, Translated from the Nitmerous Hlusiratjons by ro 16mo. pp. 194, Kow A & Arzistron 2ot ] the Layravings by fmo,, P 103, New York: 8. Aemsrong. Loscut's itotbaré. By N, D'Asvens, Foundd on tho Yrench of Z, FLycl With 10 v Al Banare 1610, Py, 182, New York : Seribaer, W ford 2ad Armisizong, Tnz Horse o WRrrLs; o, Far rzost Hour. From the French of Mme, Dk Srouz, My N, D'A With Four Fall-Puge Itaetrations, Sauws " pp. 132, New York: seribuer, Welford Araimirong, dho pretty covors, convenient eize, and low price of tbees volumes, attisct fmmediste st~ toption. The scrien, roprinied from the Euglish edition, ia carefully cdited, with theview of pre- senting, in » ueat sod chesp form, chioice lections from tho bess Freuch, Germav, glish, and American literature, Of tho classics, *Undipa ™ and ** Picclols,” not a word nerd be asid. Toey canno: be presented too frequentiv or in too zreat o varioty of shapes. ** Saugull Ttock.” by Jules Sandeau. 18 legs widaly Knoirn ; but 18 rollicking atory for young folka, brin: ming over with mirth and jocularity. Ihe rer maining stories havo their respective meriss, and will furaish amutement 10 vatious classes and LIRIN PERSIAN HISTORY, AsciEnT TUSTORT TRON TR Moxuiuw . That the present volume Is less interesting tian ity predocessars in tho seried, is in geeat pure due to the fact that tho matoeriala availablo for 9k construction nro far sore meagre and tame than thoso which the hirtorian of Fgypt and Assyria pas ot his command. Tho existiog ‘wonuments of the pust splondor of Persis are very fow, and the records of her career among tho nations of entiquity aro scanty. From such vestiges ay remain and havo buan open to tho - tergretation of modarn echolars, Mr, Vaux bas produced a bricf but ictelligent account of thn tbree Governuents that in succession rulod over ancient ersla. There aro blemishes in hiy stvla, at which the eritic might carp; but the varncet, yet hmrriod, inquiser iuto the Lifo of tha au tque world will rafraiy from findiog fault with com- parativa tnfles, in grateful considerntion of the real wervice rendered fu tha preparation of compende likeo thu oue uuder notice, A FRENCH LIFE OF LEE. Uy Varscu: Boovesme ov drw, flonenr Lrr. Tar Mme, B, Bowsosas, Paria: Bibliothequa d Flucstion ‘ot do Revreation, Chicag 1w, Bitoli- for, 187 ‘This is a curious 1iti]s book to ho written by a French Indy. 1t le the product of a genutno a1 1niration for the charactor of Lee, nhich, in tho dedication of thoe volume, the authoress com- mends to tho reverenco and imitation of hier son for its bravery aud devation to the causo Leo bad espoused. Hho ealls him thy laysrd d'Amertque.” Tho volums is mado up muinly from provious livea and reminisceuces of Leo, 80 that it contributos nothing uew to the Ameri- u literaturo of tho War: butit 1 in tho wain accurats, It i8 prettily written, and i of tho enav, narrativa style which wav mako it interest. iug aod useful to theee wing to roml Frouch, A NEW CHICAGO NOVEL. A Weatorn paot and u Wostern writer of pootlo proso have just put into the lands of Jauson, MeClurg & Co., for publieatiou the last of thus wmoutl, & notable little Lulidav-book. Tha intro- ductory voeta, ** A Dreaw of [aly,” is by Jos. quin Aillor ; aud tha fa ing love-story which follows —** Muo Madden "—ig by 3lrs. “Alfied ishiop Mason, of this city, The aceno of the siory ]B 1aud 1 f1aly, though most of the char- wetors ars Amorican. Nae Madden, tho heroine, i & willtul sud winniog countrywoman of ours. 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I Linn Linto by dwand COnoksme i Cllustrate s Progrervion and Tnolincte er Harmos " KEeich of N, Moy E i m.."’-’-&,{;’;‘/ : for Xow:mhr.‘75/n s ~ Comte o L] dge—cutrent numbsrn {."7!’, f o 8 Tavle, uis A, Coler AN ITALIAN POEM DN WASHINGTON, ' Vanbiurton, Uttave,” in the titie of & pos om i the Italisn language, publivhed a3 Turin. Tho author, whoto nawe doey 1oz Appear o tho titlo-page, but is eizuod to the preface, is Lucs Havarose, Wwho saFe that in reading the * ifistory of Americe " ho wes struck with tho majestie figure of Georgo Wastungion as ho hLad pover heen by that of auy parsouage eithar of anclant or modets istory, Tho thought of Wanbing. ton's grestucwy, of liv many virtuca, exhibited Loth in his public aud his domestic lite, and of the impcriant results of bi4 public sarvices, lisunted the author's mind til it found ezpros- rion in thiv poem, whict baars wituoss in its ma- al numbor: ful msagery. and its up- posite reies 0 tho wmcere euthusiasm with which the Signor Savarcse conteispiated his subjoct, His poem in in tho octave stanza consecrated to hroic wbjocts by tho examplo vt st mastets of Itaian verso. 1o boging tduood sud yoush of Washington wt_the m ey of Jus native Stale, Virgini. sets before the raader th math- o aud Kindly exbortations by which his faghor traiead bins to o lifo ot intepnty, bensvolende, aad dwsiuteresicd laborn for othera. I'no nflu- oucoof these tearungs wpon s avud und chiatacter, secompanicil 8% 1L was by that of tha various fortunato circumstances of hiw carly life, ribed a8 furing Liw to thit imovlenoss of character which marked his afier-iie, aud mado bim an hlvstrivus 8y woil u) rare exeens tion tothat numerons cinss who are spotled by power nod glors. Among thy other evente of hit iife, Bignor Havarean hus not fozotton 1o wale him ajover, sl & nuitor 9 tho lady who after. ward gave him hor haud, Tie war for Amoris i deneo is hapatehed 1n comparatively s, 1 which the suthor wiiows bis e gevurey i molding the harshesounding Eaglinh unmes, borns by puaces aud warriors, Lo s form which sce: them run smoothly auto Itatian vere, Umally. comes tho ctose of tho Revola- tiomary strizade, nvd tho hoto withdraws to private hife, to countrr parouiss, and to the ro- tipemont which ho lovel. ‘There was yet in the onginal plan of the suthur a continustion of the pocn, siclding, ud we itfor, the accaptanco by Waslington of the eaprems pawer of tho L. publie aud hiv grucelal retiremest [rom olics at the oud of izt veara : but thiy tho uutuor baa Leon preveutad doost wrikiag by s varions oo- cupations, A NERY ANCIENT WORK. Tho ol ators of the fenuly gencalogy in whick was written, almoat hait way dawn, ** About thie ine oceurred tho Deluge,” ia ealled to mind by o controversy over 3 work of which an English teauslation 1 to b published by Trucbner & Ca. ‘This w the Oera Linda ok, of which the MS, 1 ¥aid to bave beon in tho posecssion of the Friesie family of the Over de Lindes since tima immemorisl. It professos to be s chroalicle of the Iricsic race in gonoral, and of tho Over de¢ Laudes in particolar. Tho fiest balf 18 gaud g have beea wistten by Adels, au ancestrosa of o Over de L and by leor children, Adeduost and Apollouis, about fiva cen- tunes wnd & halt B, O, avd the nalf by the descendauts of Adela, about 930 years L. C. Accordivg to s fumils tradition, tho manvseripe had alvays to descound [rota fasher ta sou of grandson, With Luo fnfun tion of 1t belngg coped [rom timo to tiwe iu or- der to guard agalngs its foss, Tho codex which now eZistn professed to have beeu copfed by ILkko oers Liuds fo 1233, Tha Friesans ssaect tin geotiineness of tho manaseript. while Dut-h wcolaw derido itngautbonticliy. It ia admutted by tho [atter, however. that it s soveral hundeoid soars old, and the quostion is hurled at them, now iy 15 that, 1f 8 10rgory, tho WanUsSript ror Jors a vinie to the pile-awellers in B vitzerland ubous tive canturies I, C., when, sinco Herados ' aceoust of the pile-dwollers of tha Pivos mana, uu:hmk,} more has been hoard of jlo- wrd until 1853, whon Dr, Keller tirst wada own hi dimcovery of the rewains of sucl dwellings in tho Lake of Zurion! pocond LITERANY NOTES. Wilkam Morris' (ranslation of the Fnald, whicl ho bas tinishod, will be published by Rob- erty Brothiers, Mr, Edward Jeokivs, the author of ** Glox's Baby," I8 wilting a temperance storv, Tho titla will probably ba ** I'ho Devil's Chain," A chronicioof * Tho Prayer-gange Debate™ ia to bo lssued by the Congregational Publishing Houwe, lioston. It i to inciuda thoe arguments of Profs. Typdaf}, Cinlton, wud oihers on ono nido, and of Dr, McCosty, Csaon Liddon, the Duko of Argsll, sud othora ou the othor. The lifo of John Locke, by 3Ir. H. B. Foxe Bourne, s comploted, and will be pabliabod ear- ly next yoar, Tho editor has discovered the original manuscripts of soveral ehort troatises writien by the philosophor but never published, smoug then, »An Lusay Coocerning Tolecs: tion, " punuad fourtoens soars before the fiset of ‘Locke's famous » Letters on Toleration.™ Tho forthcoming volume of Prof. Max Mul. ler's **Chips from & German Workshop” will coucludo tho veried, and will contain a gaoegal index to this ana thoe precading (third) volume. 1Lalf of tho book ia devoted to paperd ou cOme parstive philulovy and religlon, while the latter portion incivies bis reply o My, Darwin, bis ad- drens boforo the Orisntal.Congress, hia sketch of Colobrovk, sud mlscellansous papers, It will bo published by Boribuer, Armstrung & Ca. Tue new volume of Mill'y * Disscrtations sud as publivhed In this countey, will iuciude Lis essaye on ¢ Endowmouts,” * Treaty Oblixations,” ete., reviows of ** Thoraton on Labor," Brof, Lestio o the Land Queation,* ‘eius on Intolligonce,” and_** Grote's Aristo- tle ;"-and on the subject of Land Touure, his programme for tho lelosm Assoclation, b epecelios, the * Advice to Land Keformers,” aud tho paper on * Tho Right of Proporty iu Land." Au elaborate History of the Gorman People, York : diribuer, Annatrong & Tice, by various hauds, s sunounced iv the Athencumn Oastev Davy, ‘TuiBiowyor a¥ lusudoseTun | The first part, wiich reaches to the desth af % Viaws Auo, By Avsig Kagy, dubarof o+ Od- | Clariomaguo, has Losu uudertakou Ly Prof bury,” ete. Jwo., pp. 57, Ybiladelphia: - $orter | poiix Dabin; tho wecoud pars will extend to Ro Coates, Price, $1.23. 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